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How many times did want to have the row number or the position of the row in the selected query? I had many cases where I needed this feature. I needed the feature for printing the rank of a person where each row is the mark of the person. So lets see how …

If you are using mysql regularly on multiple servers its really useful to have the promt in mysql to show something more than mysql>. It would be useful if it showed the username,hostname, current database and things like that.
So how to do this.
One m …

Here are a few sets of interview questions expected for MySQL DBA position.These are compilation of the usual questions from various DBA texts:
What is Log Switch? – The point at which ORACLE ends writing to one online redo log file and begins writing to …

Mysql can be configured to run other ports other than the default port (of 3306). So what will you do when you need to find the port on which a mysql server runs on. If you don’t have access to the server files and can access the server only using the mysq …

I have a table called date_count with 2 columns one is a value and another is a date time, say called date_time in mysql. Date Time in mysql is stored as dd-mm-yy hh:mm:ss. The issue comes when I need to get the number of rows per day. As its stored as dat …

If you want to generate dates, MYSQL doesn’t have a range function, so I wrote a work around for the same. So how it works is I have reused a code to generate numbers from my previous post. So I added date function to that query and reduce the generated …

Sometimes its necessary to execute a query or execute some code if a table exists or not. So a bit of searching got me to the conclusion that mysql doesn’t have a direct query or method for it from php. So there are two methods to do it.
Use the mysql c …

This is a simple method I found to remove or strip trailing zeros of a decimal number. The function accepts the decimal number and return the trimmed value back. It removes all the redundant zeros in the number after the decimal point and if no number othe …

Sometimes its necessary to have thousand rows to join or generate new values, we need to get the thousand rows first. For this I used union of numbers 0-9. I have joined four of these to get to four digit values. So here is the code:

Large inserts/Updates are a costly operation. One foolish way that I used to do is to run each update or insert query one at a time. Its incredibly slow. With most of the systems currently the latency is what is killing the performance not the CPU. Hence l …